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Introduction
Current institution
Current position
- Cryogenics Project/System Engineer for MINERVA
Additional affiliations
November 2011 - January 2018
Position
- Cryogenics Engineer (Doctoral Student; Senior Research Fellow)
Publications
Publications (9)
MYRRHA (Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications) will be composed of a 600 MeV LINear ACcelerator (LINAC) with a large number of cryomodules and a 100 MW thermal power subcritical nuclear reactor cooled by lead-bismuth. The MINERVA MYRRHA Isotopes productioN coupling the linEar acceleRator to the Versatile proton target fAc...
MYRRHA at SCK CEN in Mol/Belgium will be a pre-industrial large-scale Accelerator Driven System for unparalleled research opportunities in spent nuclear fuel, nuclear medicine, and fundamental and applied physics. In 2018 the Belgian government released funding for MYRRHA’s first phase, MINERVA, for a staged implementation and operation. It covers...
Cryogenic refrigeration is indispensable for the operation of medical devices that employ superconducting components, in order to obtain a more powerful and compact system. Although cryogenic refrigerators are commercially available, the development of tailor-made solutions is sometimes unavoidable due to special system requirements. This is the ca...
Powering superconducting (SC) magnets in particle accelerators remotely through SC links allows to install the power supplies, the current leads and ancillary equipment away from the limited space, high radiation areas next to the magnets. Accelerator facilities with SC magnets at 4.5 K always need a significant cryogenic infrastructure; integratin...
The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is a project to upgrade the LHC collider after 2020-2025 to increase the integrated luminosity by about one order of magnitude and extend the physics production until 2035. An upgrade of the focusing triplets insertion system for the ATLAS and CMS experiments is foreseen using superconducting magnets operating in a...
The cryogenic system of the LHC will be upgraded by 2025 to comply with a considerable increase of beam induced heat loads deriving from higher beam currents and peak luminosity levels from the High Luminosity LHC. The current baseline foresees a modified sectorisation scheme with three additional cryogenic plants dedicated to cool the insertions a...
Through a technology transfer program CERN is involved in the R&D of a compact superconducting cyclotron for future clinical radioisotope production, a project led by the Spanish research institute CIEMAT. For the remote cooling of the LTc superconducting magnet operating at 4.5 K, CERN has designed a small scale refrigeration system, the Cryogenic...
The present paper describes the development process of a low critical temperature superconducting magnet to be installed in a compact cyclotron producing single-dose radioisotopes for clinical and preclinical applications. After a brief description of the accelerator, the magnet development process is described, starting from the magnetic, mechanic...
